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Patented dan. 16, i923.,

ont r' LOUIS BINDER, OF NEWJRK, NEW JERSEY.

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Application filed July 29, 1921.

To all who/m, z' may concern Be it known that l, LoUis BiNDEn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident ot Newark, county of Essex, and State oi New Jersey, have invented certain new and usci-'ul improvements in Boxes, ot which the.- ollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved box and particularly to boxes that are held shut by a brad or nail forced through the end of the lid into the frontwall of the box.

The material of which cardboard boxes are made is brittle or pulpy and does not closely grasp a nail, and when the lid is pried open there is more likelihood of the cover being stripped from the nail than that the nail will be withdrawn from the box with the lid,

To overcome this deect l have devised the present box, which in the main is inade of' cardboard, but which has wooden or similar close grained material disposed at the edge of vthe front of the box and at the .tree end of the lid to provide a nailing portion which can be repeatedly pried open and re-nailed, it necessary, without crumbling or tearing away oft' the material surrounding the nail.

rihe invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure y1 isa perspective view ot the box with the .hd open, the usual ornamental covering being lett oil' to more clearly show the construe tion. Figure 2 is a cross-section of the box shown in Figure 1, but with the lid closed. Figure 3 is an enlarged section showing the front wall of the box proper and the Jfront end ot the lid with the covering sheet in position.

The box is made of heavy cardboard,v the usual way of making these boxes being to inake the bottom 1 0, the rear wall 11, the end walls 12 and the front wall 13 from a single blank and then bending up these side walls and securing thjein :in position by* pasting or otherwise` andv l Vprovide atthe top edge of the front wall a recess, into which I place a strip 14 ot closelygrained material, preferably wood, this strip being held in position by glue or other suitable adhesive, and l prefer to inake the ends of the recess into which the strip fits so that they converge, as at 15, whereby the recess y:shorter than the lid itself,

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is narrower at the top than at the bottom :and the strip is therefore more securely held :against displacement.

`While the glue'is usually sufficient to hold Vthe strip against lateral movement, l prefer Vto provide an outside panel 16 ot cardboard 'this being usually thinner than the mateirial of the front wall 13 and fastened in place by glue spread over its entire inner tace. 'The lid is usually fastened so that it is hinged to the top of the back wall 11, the fnornial way at present of doing this being ib'y pasting a strip 17 of linen or similar vfabric to the rear wall of the box' and also pasting it to the lid.

The lid is formed of a center sheet 18 ot' heavy cardboard, which sheet is made and to complete the length of the lid I provide a wooden strip 19, and while wood is preferred, it 'will be understood that other closely grained niaterial can be employed, if desired. A

A top sheet 20 is pasted overthe outer face ot' the center sheet 18 and the strip 19, so that the end of the strip 19 and theend of th'e sheet 20 dene'the end of the lid.` A bottom sheet 21 is fastened, usually by pasting, to the center sheet 18 and overlaps the center sheet and projects over a material space of the strip 19,

The sheet 21 thus performs a double Afunction in that it assists inholding the strip 19 in place at the end of the lid, and also tits inside of the side walls of the box proper, thus preventing inward movement of the sides of the box to prevent damage to the contents, which might be caused by the co1- lapsing or excessive inward movement of the side walls. l may also employ a sheet Q2 pasted to the inside oi the front wall of the box to give it strength.

These boxes are usually covered with an ornamental or iinishing sheet, usually paper printed to simulate wood or Containing an advertisement ot the goods enclosedl` the sheet 'for the iid oi" the box being shown at 23 in Figure the sheet covering the box proper being illustrated at 24, Figure have found, in ordinary cardboard boxes that when a brad is used and is 'forced through the edge oit the lid down into the front wall of the box, the material ot the box separates easily when puncture@ edgewise, so that there is not a firm grip on the nail in inany instances, and on the other hand, the material, when very dry, crumbles easily and has a tendency to have small pieces thereof detached therefrom, this quality causing' the material et the lid, when made o'lf fardboard, to give way when the lid is to be pried open, so that the cover rides off of the nail rather than the nail coming out of the side oi the box.

ln Figure 2 I show the brad 25, which, it will be noticed, in niy forni olf box is nailed through the wooden strip on the lid and into the Wooden strip of the trent side of the bod) of the box. iii the lid is to be opened it is usually pried by a bex opener which is inserted between the lid and the top edge of the liront of the box, and when pressure is applied the lid is pried open and takes the brad 25 with it, any pulling ot the strip on the lid being resisted by the top sheet 2O being pasted over it and tending to hold it down, and the 'liront edge ot' the bottom sheet 2l also being' glued to the strip 19 and assisting in holding; it in alignment with the center sheet 18, and furthermore I desire to make the strip 19 as long;l as the box lid so that the leverage applied by the box opener anywhere aloner the length of the strip 19 will not cause undue bending' el the box lid, but the lid will be pried up, carrying the brad 25 with it, thus making it unnecessary to localize the prying open of the bei; close tothe brad Furthermore, the bottom sheet 2l ot the lid, fitting Within the side Walls oll the box, braces these side Walls When the lid "is shut and also limits the inward movement o' any l box opener so that such opener will not enany of the goods to damage them.

l claim:

l. A box made of cardboard and having a cardboard lid, a Wooden strip secured edgewise in the top edge of the lront side ot' the box, and a wooden strip secured edgewise in the Jfree end of the lid.

2. A box inade of cardboard and having a cardboard lid, a Wooden strip secured edgewise in the top edge ot' the front side of the box, and a Wooden strip secured edgewise in the tree end olf the lid, said last inentioned strip being,- substantiallyas long as the lid.

A, cardboard box with the front Wall. oit the bor; having a recess with upwardly converging ends, Wooden strip fitted in said recess, a Wooden strip as long as the lid and secured to the free end et the lid so that the Wooden strips are in juxtaposition when the lid is shut.

'et A. cardboard. box With cardboard lid7 the iront Wall el" the box having a recess with upwardly coni/'erging` ends, a Wooden strip fitted in said recess, the lid being :termed of a center cardboard sheet, a top a cardboard lid,

cardboard sheet, a bottoni cardboard sheet,`

the bottom sheet fitting' within the Walls o'l" the box, and a wooden strip secured between said bottom and top shets and abuttingrr on the center sheet, the outer eda'e ot the strip and ot the top sheet definingtheredfre et the lid.

ln testimony that l claim the foregoing, l have hereto set my hand, this 28th day off July-1921. v i

LOUIS BNDER. 

